29 Jun 1854 Jahr - Signs Appropriations Bill (10 Stat 301) enabling the President to fulfill the amended purchase outlined in the Gadsden Treaty. The U.S. purchases 29,670 square miles of Mexican land for $10 million, later comprising parts of Arizona and New Mexico. The Treaty resolves tensions from the Mexican-American war and provides enough land for a southern transcontinental railroad
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